Anthony Shafton was born in Chicago in 1937. The Nevada They Knew is his fifth book. Shafton has always been a writer and independent scholar, with degrees from Harvard and Stanford Universities. Before retiring, he earned his living in a variety of occupations, including teacher, merchant seaman, craftsman and small businessman. Since 2012 he has been at home in Reno, Nevada.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- The Apostate Heriger (1962). Grove Press. (A novel, published in France as Le Moine Apostat, and twice adapted for the stage there. Continuously available in France since 1964.)
- Conditions of Awareness: Subjective Factors in the Social Adaptations of Man & Other Primates (1976). Riverstone Press. (A Darwinian explanation for the emergence of existential self-awareness.)
- Dream Reader: Contemporary Approaches to the Understanding of Dreams (1995). State University of New York Press. (An exploration of schools of dream psychology.)
- Dream-Singers: The African American Way with Dreams (2002). John Wiley & Sons. (A sociological study of dreaming and dream sharing among African Americans.)
- Articles on the subjects of these nonfiction books in collections and journals.
- Various poems in small magazines.
- “Robert Caples: Teaching us to see Nevada” (2014). In Geoff Schumacher, editor, Nevada: 150 Years in the Silver State. Stephens Press, 195–96. (One of only two articles on fine art in Nevada’s official sesquicentennial volume of essays.)
- The Nevada They Knew: Robert Caples and Walter Van Tilburg Clark (2017). Fonthill Media.
Shafton’s earlier books are available either new or used through Amazon. Conditions of Awareness is also available from the author.
The Nevada They Knew 